Locum Consultant in Orthodontics

QVH; East Grinstead; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Career development programmes

Reward programme with discounts

Job summary

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Locum Consultant Orthodontist to join the Orthodontic Unit. The postholder will deliver consultant-led orthodontic care across the trust and its catchment, with access to a modern, digitally integrated facility and multidisciplinary teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration with primary and secondary care, ongoing service development, and ensuring delivery against the 18-week RTT standard.

Qualifications

• GDC-registered orthodontist with consultant capability.
• Experience with CBCT and complex orthodontic cases preferred.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary clinics and service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide locum consultant orthodontic services for Queen Victoria Hospital and surrounding catchment.
• Collaborate with the Orthodontic Department and wider MDT to ensure high-quality patient care.
• Develop and deliver orthodontic services, ensuring compliance with RTT and NHS standards.
• Support education and training of Specialist Practitioners, Registrars, and Therapists.
• Lead and participate in clinical governance, audits and CPD activities.

Skills

CBCT experience

Consultant orthodontics

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

UK professional registration (GDC)

Job description

Welcome to Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and thank you for your interest.

In addition to receiving tertiary referrals from across the South East of England, we have a network of ‘spoke’ sites at district general hospitals enabling our consultants to offer their expertise with routine treatments and consultations as close to patients’ homes as is possible. With the recent addition of video led ‘virtual’ consultations we also enable patients who have some distance to travel to avoid the additional stress and worry of a long journey.

Working at QVH combines the excitement, challenge and career opportunities of many larger organisations with the satisfaction of delivering excellent patient care that really does re-build our patients’ lives.

We also offer attractive benefits such as

• tailored personal development to support career aspirations, including accredited clinical and management development programmes
• flexible working arrangements for a work-life balance that suits you and your needs
• a dedicated reward programme, offering a range of national and local discounts, cashback and tax relief schemes

The Trust is committed to offering a range of flexibleworking options to support employees to balance work and personal commitments, and the delivery of high quality and cost effective services.

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Sustainability

At Queen Victoria Hospital we want to be the first Net Zero Hospital in England, and to achieve that wants every member of staff to be a green champion. The way in which the Trust works has a significant impact on the organisation’s carbon footprint and that of our patients. From the heat, light and power supplies within the hospital to avoiding unnecessary patient journeys, the Trust is empowering all staff to create a sustainable health and care environment for future generations. The Trust expects all staff to reuse and recycle more, to use energy and water efficiently, to walk or cycle to work if you can, and to have a focus on sustainability in the workplace.

The post holder will provide Locum Consultant Orthodontic services within the Orthodontic Unit at Queen Victoria Hospital (QVH). While the current job plan is based at QVH, it may be subject to future review and adjustment to meet the evolving needs of this growing and developing service.

The Orthodontic Department is housed within a modern, purpose-built facility comprising nine fully equipped clinical surgeries, designed to support the delivery of high-quality patient care. Each surgery has access to the Hospital Intranet, departmental databases, and Dolphin orthodontic treatment planning software, facilitating efficient clinical management and multidisciplinary working.

The department has embraced a comprehensive digital workflow, incorporating intraoral scanning technology alongside established digital photography, radiography, and 3D treatment planning platforms. This advanced technological infrastructure supports accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and patient care, ensuring the department remains at the forefront of modern orthodontic practice.

Main duties of the job

The configuration of responsibilities will be reviewed periodically to ensure that service requirements continue to be met. The post holder will be expected to work closely with consultant colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide a high-quality, responsive, and efficient orthodontic service.

In collaboration with consultant colleagues, the appointee will be responsible for the provision and development of the following services:

• Providing consultant-led orthodontic services for the population served by Queen Victoria Hospital and the surrounding catchment area.
• Actively participating as an integrated and collaborative member of the Orthodontic Department, promoting excellence in patient care and service delivery.
• Contributing to the strategic development and continuous improvement of orthodontic services at Queen Victoria Hospital.
• Supporting the department in meeting service demands and maintaining performance against the 18-week Referral to Treatment (RTT) standard.
• Providing specialist advice and guidance to dental and medical practitioners working within primary care settings.
• Providing expert orthodontic advice to hospital clinicians, including consultants in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Special Care Dentistry, Restorative Dentistry, Paediatric Dentistry, Paediatrics, Plastic Surgery, Sleep Medicine, and Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) services.

Working for our organisation

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.

We specialise in conditions of the eyes (corneoplastics), hands, head and neck cancer and skin cancer, reconstructive breast surgery, maxillofacial surgery and prosthetics, providing regional and national services in these areas of clinical expertise.Our world-leading clinical teams also treat more common conditions of the eyes, hands, skin, and teeth for the people of East Grinstead and the surrounding areas. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and a growing portfolio of community-based services.Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care.

Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining close working relationships with specialist orthodontic practitioners in primary care to support effective patient pathways and continuity of care.
• Providing second opinions for patients at the request of dental and medical practitioners or consultant colleagues.
• Assessing and treating patients presenting with severe malocclusions and complex orthodontic needs.
• Managing patients requiring multidisciplinary care, including those with cleft lip and palate, orthognathic conditions, dentoalveolar discrepancies requirements, and sleep-disordered breathing conditions.
• Participating in joint multidisciplinary clinics and multidisciplinary team meetings, contributing specialist orthodontic expertise to the assessment, treatment planning, and management of complex cases.
• Advising and counselling patients where treatment is not indicated or is unlikely to deliver significant health benefit.
• Providing treatment plans and specialist advice to dentists, specialist practitioners, and referring clinicians.
• Supporting and helping to lead the education and training of Specialist Practitioners, Specialty Registrars, and Orthodontic Therapists, working in collaboration with educational colleagues at Guy’s and King’s College Hospitals.
• Participating in the education, training, and professional development of all departmental staff.
• Undertaking clinical audit and quality improvement activities at local, regional, and national levels.
• Participating in continuing professional development (CPD) and maintaining professional standards in accordance with General Dental Council requirements.
• Actively contributing to departmental clinical governance activities, including risk management, patient safety initiatives, morbidity and mortality review, audit, and service improvement programmes.

Person specification

Experience

• Head and Neck > 1 year
• CBCT experience

CPD/ teaching/ audit

• Evidence of CPD
• Teaching experience at any level
• Participation in audit
• REALM experience
• Service improvement

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.